#NicoleKidman is the fourth single from Slovak-born pop artist Adéla’s debut album PRIMA — released September 4, 2026 through Capitol Records — a name-checking love letter to Kidman’s Moulin Rouge!, Eyes Wide Shut, Birth, Babygirl and AMC-commercial personas whose Hannah Lux Davis–directed music video restages each of those looks in turn. Kidman herself endorsed the song by uploading her first-ever TikTok to Adéla’s earlier single “Ain’t in LA” and publicly committing to attend Adéla’s Nashville show, turning a Slovak pop cut into a mainstream US moment.
Quick Facts
- Release date: September 4, 2026
- Album: PRIMA (Adéla’s debut, released same day)
- Label: Capitol Records
- Music-video director: Hannah Lux Davis
- Album chart peak: #4, Billboard 200 (PRIMA)
- Key lyric quoted online: “Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole”
- Track/single position: second track on PRIMA, released as the album’s fourth single
- Billboard Hot 100 peak: No. 22
- Producers: Blake Slatkin and Dylan Brady
- Kidman’s response: attended-in-Nashville commitment + first-ever TikTok using Adéla’s “Ain’t in LA”
Origin
Per Wikipedia’s entry on the song, Adéla traced the idea to a Golden Globes afterparty in January 2026, where she wore a corset so tight she compared the feeling to channeling Nicole Kidman — a moment that became the song’s central hook.
The Song
“Nicole Kidman” is a rhythmic, hyper-referential pop track that treats Kidman’s filmography like a personal manifestation board. The lyric plays as first-person fan fiction — the narrator standing in Kidman’s shoes across a montage of iconic roles — and the pre-chorus line “Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole” (a nod to Kidman’s 2024 film Babygirl) has become the song’s most-remixed lyric in TikTok video captions. The music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, cycles through restaged imagery from Moulin Rouge!, Eyes Wide Shut, Birth, Babygirl and Kidman’s much-parodied AMC Theatres commercial.
Cast & Creators
- Adéla — the Slovak-born pop artist. PRIMA is her debut studio album; her earlier single “Ain’t in LA” was her first Billboard Hot 100 entry and reached the UK Top 40, and became a viral anthem for anyone whose dreams live several time zones from Hollywood.
- Hannah Lux Davis — director of the “Nicole Kidman” music video, whose imagery grounds the trend’s visual identity.
- Nicole Kidman — the subject the song is named for, whose personal endorsement escalated the release from Slovakia-and-fashion-press coverage to global pop news.
Critical Reception
The song landed as the fourth single of a debut album cycle Adéla had been building toward for months. Rolling Stone framed the video as Adéla “channeling her inner movie star.” Just Jared unpacked its meaning across a lyric-by-lyric explainer. Metal and Fashion Times both covered it as a specifically fashion-driven moment, noting how the video re-centered Kidman’s costume history for a Gen Z audience. PRIMA as a whole debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200.
Cultural Impact
On the “artist name-checks A-lister” pop tradition. “Nicole Kidman” joins a long lineage — from Britney Spears’s “If U Seek Amy” and every “Marilyn”-titled ballad since — of pop songs that treat a specific icon as a lyrical scaffold. Adéla’s version is distinctive for being cinema-literate: it doesn’t invoke Kidman as a diva-figure abstraction, it walks through her actual filmography.
On the AMC commercial’s second life. Kidman’s We Make Movies Better AMC commercial had already become a meme in its own right; the “Nicole Kidman” video’s restaging of it — combined with Kidman’s own TikTok debut — turned the commercial back into an active meme layer months into its downcycle.
On subject-endorsed pop songs. The Kidman co-sign is the trend’s most-cited beat: instead of the referenced celebrity ignoring or distancing themselves from the song, Kidman leaned in publicly, which is exactly what elevated it from a Slavic-pop moment to global coverage. It has been referenced across September 2026 as a template for how a name-check song can be amplified through the subject’s participation.
Variations & Related Tags
- #Adela — the artist’s tag
- #PRIMA — the debut album the song anchors
- #AintInLA — Adéla’s breakthrough single, the audio Kidman used for her first TikTok
- #Babygirl — the 2024 Kidman film the pre-chorus quotes
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Kidman_(song)
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/adela-nicole-kidman-music-video-1235621284/
- https://www.justjared.com/2026/09/04/adelas-nicole-kidman-lyrics-singer-explains-meaning-pays-homage-to-moulin-rouge-babygirl-amc-in-music-video/
- https://www.justjared.com/2026/08/27/nicole-kidman-makes-tiktok-debut-with-adela-song-reveals-plans-to-attend-her-concert/
- https://www.fashiontimes.com/adelas-new-song-nicole-kidman-puts-real-fashion-icon-back-spotlight-14871
- https://www.culledculture.com/adela-nicole-kidman-video/